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US To Help Egypt Build Border Fence
allheadlinenews ^ | March 22, 2008

Posted on 03/24/2008 8:21:11 PM PDT by Oorang

Cairo, Egypt - The United States has announced that it is planning to help Egypt build a border fence along the Gaza-Egypt border. Washington transferred $23 million worth of special aid to the North African nation as part of its assistance in locating smuggling tunnels.

Over the past few months, smuggling between Gaza and Egypt has garnered more attention in light of the Israeli economic blockade on the small Mediterranean strip of land. Israel is calling on Egypt to improve its crackdown on Palestinian smuggling, which the Jewish state says allows weapons to enter Gaza that are then used against southern Israel.

The planned fence between Egypt and Gaza will employ technology directed at preventing the fence from being damaged. This is in response to Palestinian militants who blew a hole in the current wall between the two nations that allowed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to flock into Egypt late January and early February.

The American Army Corps of Engineers plans to send teams to Egypt to help push forward the border fence plans. No timetable has been given yet as to when the wall will be constructed

While building the wall, the Americans also hope to help Egyptian security forces locate and destroy smuggling tunnels into Gaza Israel has welcomed the move, saying that American participation will help end the movement of weapons into Gaza.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Egypt; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; egypt; illegals
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1 posted on 03/24/2008 8:21:11 PM PDT by Oorang
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To: Oorang

(rim shot)


2 posted on 03/24/2008 8:21:54 PM PDT by Gene Eric
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To: Oorang

Why is it the Palestinians need to be fenced in by their fellow Arab Muslims?


3 posted on 03/24/2008 8:23:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: Gene Eric

Oh, I get it ... we’ve been waiting for Egypt to help US build OUR fence ... sometimes I’m just a little slow.

Can you believe this sh!t?


4 posted on 03/24/2008 8:23:33 PM PDT by Let's Roll (As usual, following a shooting spree, libs want to take guns away from those who DIDN'T do it.)
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To: Let's Roll
LOL!
5 posted on 03/24/2008 8:26:26 PM PDT by TCats (The Clintons Are Not Just Wrong - They Are Certifiable AND Dangerous! See my Page)
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To: Oorang

The Cobbler’s Son....


6 posted on 03/24/2008 8:27:29 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (New York Times Endorsed!!!)
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To: Let's Roll

“Oh, I get it ... we’ve been waiting for Egypt to help US build OUR fence”

Don’t worry, here in the USA the streets are paved with gold.


7 posted on 03/24/2008 8:27:47 PM PDT by devere (http://www.usmm.net/p2/thiswar.jpg)
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To: Oorang

It’s enough to make a legal Arizona citizen go insane.


8 posted on 03/24/2008 8:28:32 PM PDT by donna (They hand off my culture & citizenship to criminals & then call me racist for objecting?)
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To: Oorang

I dont think so...we just blew up one of their ships in the Gulf


9 posted on 03/24/2008 8:29:04 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: Oorang

Is this a slap in the face, or what?


10 posted on 03/24/2008 8:30:01 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: Oorang
Photobucket How about finishing one here first!!!!!!!Photobucket
11 posted on 03/24/2008 8:40:04 PM PDT by SiVisPacemParaBellum (Peace through superior firepower!)
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To: CindyDawg
Oh OK, I'll trade you one fence for a ship.evil
12 posted on 03/24/2008 8:41:59 PM PDT by SiVisPacemParaBellum (Peace through superior firepower!)
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To: Oorang

God I’m getting so pissed off. BUILD OUR FENCE!


13 posted on 03/24/2008 8:44:16 PM PDT by spyone
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To: Uncle Miltie

En casa de herrero, cuchillo de palo.


14 posted on 03/24/2008 8:44:44 PM PDT by null and void (Everyone in DC lies, it’s about the only bipartisan thing they can agree to do on a regular basis.)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...

It’ll have to have a pretty deep footer to prevent tunnels.


15 posted on 03/24/2008 8:47:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/______________________Profile updated Saturday, March 1, 2008)
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To: Oorang

marking so I can call my senator tomorrow AM.


16 posted on 03/24/2008 8:49:52 PM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
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To: Oorang

Yet our State Dept criticizes Israel for building a fence to protect itself from those very same Palestinians. This borders (no pun intended) on the absurd.


17 posted on 03/24/2008 8:57:52 PM PDT by baa39
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To: Oorang
I guess fences only work to keep people in.

We know they don't work to keep people out because we have been told so by the president, John McCain, Miss Lindsey Graham and every other pro-illegal politician in DC.

And now we know that is true because our government just spent $20 million dollars to prove that the company that built Air Force One and builds our Arrow anti-ballistic missile system can't build a border fence that works.

Or is that the way it was designed?

18 posted on 03/24/2008 9:06:57 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.)
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To: Oorang

We have a lot of experience building border fences.


19 posted on 03/24/2008 9:19:17 PM PDT by onedoug
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We have a lot of experience building border fences.

... in other countries. Somehow, fences can't be built here.

20 posted on 03/24/2008 9:32:42 PM PDT by KittyKares (.)
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